Photos by the Swiss photographer, pilot and aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

Photos - many of them aerial images - Walter Mittelholzer took both in Switzerland and during his adventurous flights to places like Spitzbergen (1923), Persia (1924/25), across the entire African continent to Cape Town or across Mount Kilimanjaro (1930).

The Walter Mittelholzer collection of the ETH Library Image Archive comprises more than 18'000 photographs. A large selection of the Images from Mittelholzer's flights abroad are available on Wikimedia Commons. Alternatively an API access to the entire Mittelholzer collection available on E-Pics Image Archive Online can be granted upon request.

Data and Resources

Additional information

Identifier
ethz-walter-mittelholzer-epics@eth-bibliothek
Title for URL of the dataset
Fotografien des Fotografen, Piloten und Luftfahrtpioniers Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)
Schedule the publication of the dataset
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Issued date
May 12, 2017
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Update interval
Irregular
Temporal coverage
January 1, 1894 - December 31, 1937
Publisher Information
ETH-Bibliothek
Contact points
ETH-Bibliothek, Koordinationsstelle ETH E-Pics
Languages
Language independent
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Relations
Spatial
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Terms of use
NonCommercialAllowed-CommercialAllowed-ReferenceNotRequired
Metadata Access
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